Heller satirizes military bureaucracy with bitter, stinging humor, all the while telling the darkly comic story of Yossarian, a bombardier who refuses to die. No novel before or since has matched Catch-22's intensity and brilliance in depicting the brutal insanity of war. And this novel is full of madmen - Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly m order to finish their tour Milo Minderbinder, a dedicated entrepreneur who bombs his own airfield when the Germans offer him an extra 6 percent Major Major Major, whose tragedy in life is that he resembles Henry Fonda and Major - de Coverley, whose face is so forbidding no one has dared ask his name. Yossarian is also trying to decode the meaning of Catch-22, a mysterious regulation that proves that insane people are really the sanest, while the supposedly sensible people are the true madmen. Set in a World War II American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of John Yossarian, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. Catch-22 took the war novel genre to a new level, shocking us with its clever and disturbing style. It is a classic in every sense of the word. First published m 1961, Joseph Heller's profound and compelling novel has appeared on nearly every list of must read fiction.
Catch-22 is one of this century's greatest works of American literature.
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